Originally Posted by
NEDude
It would make sense it except for two glaring problems:
1)The outsourcing contracts have been done under NAS and are in full compliance with Norwegian laws. NAI has zero effect on that.
2) Ireland is an EU country and party to the US-EU Open Skies agreement.
In order to claim that NAI is violating the Open Skies treaty, you have to argue that the outsourcing needs Ireland (which it doesn't), that Ireland does not comply with EU labour laws (which it does), and that the ability to create the Irish AOC was created by the Open Skies treaty (it was done under the provisions of the EEA agreement which has ZERO to do with the Open Skies treaty). Feel free to dislike what they do, but dislike them based on actual facts, not on raw emotion born of inaccuracies.
You start your post of with it, what is "it" that would make sense to you?
Yes, NAS uses social dumping to staff Norwegian Air Shuttle in an attempt to bypass joint collective bargaining and the laws that govern this. This is what economic trade zones are about after all—bypassing or making inapplicable regulatory law? Now your contention is that this is legal? This is a continuously common theme of discussion, which is why there where arguments over Article 17bis.
NAS has been flying to the US since 2015—prior to NAI approval. So NAI creation does not provide meaningful service that NAS couldn't already perform. NAI's core goal is to obtain 7th freedoms to apply yet another airline whipsaw. Contracted NAS pilots and the wet-leased Norwegian Group 787s are expected to be transferred to NAI so that NAI can fly the long-haul 7th freedoms Norwegian Group could access without NAI.
This type of labor recycling and social dumping is in-part why the UK is leaving the EU. And the UK is not the only population unhappy as other EU countries (Germany, Greece, Italy, and France etc.) grow increasingly dissatisfied. Finally, there is Trump which is why we are seeing so many pilots signing up for the SWAPA rally in MCO.